Hello Allan,

Thanks to Glenn for forwarding this email. 

I am indeed an advocate of open data as an enabler of accountability and transparency particularly since I am a journalist by training and am extremely interested in keeping things open. 

However, I am unfortunately unable to be at ICANN61 due to work obligations at my university. Ironically, I will be busy organizing several sessions related to open data at the upcoming Nordic Data Journalism Conference in Stockholm taking place during 15-18 March (http://noda2018.se). 

My sincere apologies and hope you manage to organize a successful session.

Sincerely,

Walid

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn@gmail.com> wrote:

HI Alan 

One of our  ISOC  BOT is very interested but not sure if he is going to ICANN 51  

Name  Dr. Walid  Al Saqif

I will followup 

G

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On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote:

This was not targeted only at ALAC member, but rather anyone who might want to work on helping to organize this session.

Working on the Open Data initiative is a different matter. The links I pointed to give you ways to do that (for a start).

Alan

At 10/12/2017 03:39 AM, Satish Babu wrote:

Not an ALAC Member, but I'd like to contribute to this initiative if there's an opportunity.

satish


On Dec 10, 2017 09:21, "Alan Greenberg" <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca > wrote:

This is a really important initiative.

See https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/odi-pilot-2017-06-27-en and https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-kicks-off-open-data-initiative-pilot for more details.

Is there someone who would like to work with them on developing and sponsoring this session?

Alan

From: farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii@gmail.com >

Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 21:22:04 -0500

To: SOAC-Leaders-ICANNMeeting-Planning  < soac-leaders-icannmeeting-planning@icann.org>

Subject: [SOAC-Leaders-ICANNMeeting-Planning] Submitting a proposal for a CC session on ICANN Open Data Efforts

Dear all,

I thought I reach out to you to inform you about NCSG's intention to submit a proposal for a cross-community session on ICANN's open data efforts. If any of the groups want to join us as the co-organizer, please contact me to work on a description and put your name down as a co-organizer on the proposal. Of course if no one volunteers at this stage and if the proposal gets accepted we will reach out to you again to organize the session in a cross-community fashion.

Best

Farzaneh

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